MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG - Tue 7 Oct ch 5 9pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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A first-look trailer has been revealed for Murder Before Evensong (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/murder-before-evensong-matthew-lewis-first-look-newsupdate/), the new six-part murder mystery series based on the novel of the same name by Reverend Richard Coles.

He was in IACGMOOH - I liked him

Matthew Lewis's character Canon Daniel Clement.

Daniel is the Rector of English village Champton, who finds himself entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church.

Other cast members for the series are also seen in the trailer, including Amanda Redman as Daniel's mother Audrey, Amit Shah as DS Neil Vanloo, Adam James as Bernard De Floures and Tamzin Outhwaite as Stella Harper.

Other stars featuring in the show's cast include Meghan Treadway, Alexander Delamain, Marion Bailey, Amanda Hadingue, Francis Magee and Nina Toussaint-White.

As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer."

Beyond Murder Before Evensong, Coles has written four more books in the Canon Clement series (https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Reverend-Richard-Coles/author/B0DR7F4RHW?tag=radtim0b-21&ascsubtag=radiotimes-2323684) – 2023's A Death in the Parish, 2024's Murder at the Monastery and Murder Under the Mistletoe, and 2025's A Death on Location.

Lewis is, of course, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series,

Murder Before Evensong
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.

When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.

I enjoyed it and thought it wove together nicely to the ending.

That was satisfying. I’m sort of glad the women did it.

Well done @Mildorado 🌟🌟

the fact it kept me guessing means it was a good series

hopefully they will do thr other books

E6 recap

https://reelmockery.com/murder-before-evensong-series-1-finale-episode-6-recap/

Yes, a good ending, enjoyable last episode. I liked the twist when we assumed they were poisoning the vicar, but it was for themselves!

Overall I enjoyed the series enough that I’d give a second series a chance. I managed to get ahead of the dates and thought I’d hold off comment to avoid spoilers but I think it has potential to develop independent of the books, rather like Grantchester and Father Brown “cozy” series.

I liked the coverage of HiV and attitudes although there was more of that in the book. I had forgotten Kerling’s name but not the outcome.

I found some casting decisions jarred with the book characters but if they develop it into its own series and storylines that becomes less of an issue.

So the book was the same as the series then

Its more than a generation ago and yes life was very different.

Something like 5% of people went to university at this time, significantly less than half were women, most were middle class/upwards with some aspirational lower middles/upper WC making it through the process. Discrimination was both widespread and normalised, including structural discrimination around pensions.

Childcare was normal, it always has been. Structured nursery sectors with government inspectors and training for childminders might not have been there (although even then, childminders had to be registered) and at the cheaper end it was likely to be Mary on the corner babysitting for cash but working class women were at work, even if it wasn’t always recorded due to the nature of the work.

So much better than the book.

I thought most of the characters were decent representations but the one who jarred with me was DS Van Loo

I really enjoyed the series and I hope there’s another one. I had no idea who the killer was, but I’m usually rubbish at working it out!

I hope they do all the books as was a good watch

I don't know how they can make the 3rd book into remotely interesting telly unless they change a lot of it.

I think it would make more sense to develop it eventually as a “spin off” rather than follow the books but keep it in the format of one story across the series (as opposed to the Grantchester weekly story format). I agree not all the books would make great telly.

Finally got round to watching this. I enjoyed it. But haven’t read the books. Loved the Communards playing in the background. I was at university in fhe 80’s and it got the era I think. The communards were one of my favourite groups. Little did I think one of them would become a vicar and an author.

Was it a different killer in the book?

Sorry @Blondeshavemorefun I love a C5 drama as much as you but I’m 2 episodes in and it’s soooooo dreary, I’m giving up and moving on

(I have so much to catch up on - I lost a week or so to the entire 3 seasons of Ted Lasso, which I highly recommend if you can get a free trial of Apple TV)

I think I’m going Riot Women next!

Oh @Thunderpunt. Sorry you didn’t enjoy

Riot woman is fab

I tried watching this, but I think the books are too fresh in my mind, so currently I'm irritated by it being different. Maybe once I start forgetting the books a bit I'll get into the show as a separate thing.

I think the the issue with books. An tv stuff. If you read the book first. You expect certain stuff

I have just read the book and the tv version is very different and loosely based on book but I still enjoyed it